The NYPD Explains Why Their Bullets Wounded Nine People Yesterday
It's official. The NYPD have admitted that all nine people wounded yesterday in the Empire State Building shootout were from bullets they fired at Jeffrey Johnson.
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It's official. The NYPD have admitted that all nine people wounded yesterday in the Empire State Building shootout were from bullets they fired at Jeffrey Johnson.
Late last night the NYPD released graphic security camera footage of their confrontation with Jeffrey Johnson in front of the Empire State Building.
The most disturbing detail about Friday's fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan is the fact that the wounded included bystanders shot by police, and the latest news suggests stray police bullets may account for "most or all" of those wounded.
If you happened to check out the homepage of The New York Times around 1 p.m. Friday, you'd have seen a startlingly graphic photo of a victim in this morning's Empire State Building shooting lying next to a vivid, red pool of blood.
As soon as Rush Limbaugh linked Friday's shooting near the Empire State Building with President Barack Obama's policies, he started qualifying the connection as "absurdist," which is the same way he qualified calling Sandra Fluke a slut.
On July 20 we woke up to the news that a 24-year-old man had killed 12 people and wounded countless others in a shooting at the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. That July 20 was a summer Friday, like today. Today, there's another shooting.
One man was killed and nine other people injured when a gunman murdered a former co-worker in front of the Empire State Building on Friday morning, before being shot and killed by New York City police officers.
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